Erin McKenna, founder of the iconic BabyCakes bakery in NYC, is back with another cookbook, this time covering all things to fill your bread basket. With recipes for pastries, pizzas, and “the perfect sandwich bread,” you won’t even notice that they’re all gluten-free and vegan.

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With the fastest selling debut cookbook of all time, Ella Woodward’s wholesome recipes and upbeat approach to healthy eating has been taking the food world by storm. She’s also a glowing example of her healthy diet, gracing the pages of magazines and posing in campaigns for fashion brands.

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No time to attend a reading? Artist and writer Kate Gavino attends more readings in NYC than seems humanly possible, and illustrates each night’s most profound or pithy quote with a delightful portrait of the author.

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The Duchess Goldblatt doesn’t just write Twitter fiction, she embodies it: she purports to be a fictional 81-year-old European duchess, and all tweets come laced with that persona’s wry and offbeat sense of humor–even the ones about her crush on Lyle Lovett. To follow her is to watch a magnificent piece of fiction/performance art unfold.

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Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now is a must-read. Living in the present can be far from easy, but Tolle teaches that it’s all you really have. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

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